The maximum principle conjecture for the Riesz transform

Let μ\mu be a nonnegative finite Borel measure with compact support and continuous density with respect to the Lebesgue measure in Rd\mathbb{R}^d, and let 0<s<d0<s<d. The ss-Riesz transform (potential) of μ\mu is

Rsμ(x)=yxyxs+1dμ(y).R^s\mu(x)=\int\frac{y-x}{|y-x|^{s+1}}\,d\mu(y).

Maximum principle conjecture. There is a constant C=C(d,s)C=C(d,s) such that

supxRdRsμ(x)CsupxsuppμRsμ(x).\sup_{x\in\mathbb{R}^d}|R^s\mu(x)|\le C\sup_{x\in\operatorname{supp}\mu}|R^s\mu(x)|.

This relation was known for d1s<dd-1\le s<d and is proved in the paper for 0<s<10<s<1 and for radial measures, while it remains open in the general case. The conjecture is stated for nonnegative measures; it is false for non-positive measures.

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Vladimir Eiderman and Fedor Nazarov, “On the maximum principle for the Riesz transform”, arXiv:1701.04500 (2017).

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